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![handle is hein.cow/secsta0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 31st CONGRESS, [SENATE.] Ex. Doc.
1st Session. No. 75.
REPORT
OF
THE SECRETARY OF STATE,
COMMUNICATING
The rejort of the Rev. R. R. Gurley, who was recently sent out by the
government to obtain information in respect to Liberia.
SEPTEM 3IR 14, 1850.
Read.
SEPTEMBER 16, 1850.
Ordered to be printed.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, September 14, 1S50.
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 2d ultimo, re-
questing a communication of the report of the Rev. R. R. Gurley, who
was recently sent out by government to obtain information in respect to
Liberia, the Secretary of State has the honor to transmit herewith a copy
of the said report. DAN. WEBSTER.
To the SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
WASHINGTON, Pebruary 15, 1850.
SIR: The results of my observations and inquiries during a recent visit
to the republic of Liberia, and also to the colony founded by the Coloni-
zation Society and State of Maryland at Cape Palnas, under your in-
.structions, I hav now the honor to submit to the consideration of your
department, and to tm Presideht of the United States.
On the 1st of August, I took passage at Baltimore in the Liberia packet,
which made Cape Mount, on the African-coast, on the morning of the
lSth of September. For several days previously the aspect of the tropical
heavens had been rich. The sun rose over Africa through a gorgeous
drapery of clouds, in which were blended all brilliant hues; and when
he sunk into the ocean, one was refhinded of those Italian sunsets of
which Chateaubriand said, it seemed as though all the purple of Rome's
consuls and Cwsars were spread out under the last footsteps of the god of
day.
When we first saw Cape Mount, the day was delightful; and, with a
gentle breeze, and in full view of the shore, which curves gently round
from that eminence to Montserado, (a distance of more than forty miles,)
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